cpp vs. m4 for .s files

Scott Schwartz schwartz at groucho.cs.psu.edu
Fri May 3 06:27:20 AEST 1991


gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
   Don't use cpp for anything, please.  It need not even exist.

m4 is cute, but cpp does have one advantage over it: it understands
more than one flavor of quotes at a time.

define(x,100)
changequote(',')
foo[x] = 'x';
bar[x] = "x";




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